Robin is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in american comic books published by dc comics. Comic books were blamed for everything from juvenile delinquency to homosexuality to communism, and the indecent relationship between batman and robin is often cited as one of the major reasons for the creation of the comics code that spelled the end of the interregnum and the dawn of the silver age of comic books. And things only get worse when red hood, red robin and grayson all come back to gotham city. Robin war specials, grayson, detective comics, robin. The event will run from december 2015 through january 2016.
The event ran from december 2015 to january 2016 in the books robin war, grayson, detective comics, we are robin, robin, son of batman, gotham academy, red hoodarsenal, and teen titans. However, robin war is probably going to be one of his bigger titles this week, the first time he is ever going to be lead writer on a minievent that will be going on in the. Robin war is a travesty of a comic book event, with an incomprehensible plot, continuity errors, poor characterizations, and a revolving door of writers and artists that. Dc comics to celebrate robin with 80th anniversary special. Robins adventures in that series along, with his continuing adventures with batman, gave him more golden age appearances than the dark knight. Robin war reading order checklist how to love comics. King bookends the comic with scenes involving characters decrying their robin status, with good effect. Robin war is the 2015 bat family crossover storyline concerning the characters who bear the title robin, as a celebration along with batman and robin eternal of the characters 75th anniversary. This reading order contains all the necessary comic book issues to enjoy the robin war event.
In robin war part 3, the gcpd cracks down on the robins, batman must choose sidesand the mysterious court of owls stands behind it all pulling the strings. He started with cowriting grayson, but now he has gone on to write critical darlings omega men and the vision. Following dick graysons debut, batman was rarely seen without his robin, however, the reverse wasnt always true. Robin war 12, grayson 15, detective comics 47, we are robin. He even has a new vertigo miniseries out this week. With the crackdowns on robins, riko is sent to gotham academy by her. There are kids all over the city calling themselves robin, bruce wayne is no longer batman and the gcpd, led by the new, armoredup batman, is cracking down on anybody wearing the r.
One of the reasons we are compiling for you the reading order for one of the most recent crosstitle dc comics event from the batman family of books, the robin war. Tom king is a comic book writer and novelist, best known for his work at dc comics including grayson and omega men. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other comic vine users. Robin war is the 2015 bat family crossover storyline concerning the characters who bear the title robin, as a celebration along with batman and robin. Art by khary randolph, alvaro martinez, raul fernandez, carmine di giandomenico, steve pugh, scott mcdaniel and andy owens. He often relies on his experience as an excia agent in his writing, especially apparent in grayson alongside cowriter tim seeley. If you are stepping into robin war as a new reader, this is fine. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. The comic book war is about a boy named robert toround. In a gotham city turned upside down, robin has become more than a single herorobin is a movement. It told the tale of how the 4 original robins banded together and trained the we are robin movement in order to protect themselves from the newly. Being a teenager is hard enough without all the crimefighting added to it. The series features numerous incarnations of batmans crimefighting partner, robin, including damian wayne, tim drake, jason todd and the original, dick grayson.
Robin volume 2 began publication in november, 1993 and was the first ongoing comic book series to spotlight the boy wonder. If you have a decade cover variant in mind, better to get planning sooner rather than later. Find the value of the dc comic robin war miniseries. Endgame, this time focusing on the sidekicks damian wayne, the current robin, has returned from his. This is a crossover event in the dc comics universe with portions of the event spanning across multiple comic book series. Son of batman, gotham academy, red hoodarsenal, and teen titans are all included in this meaty collected edition. The storyline portrays the continuing changing face of gotham in the aftermath of batman. When you spend most of your adolescence chasing criminals and. Robert was really worried about his brothers so he read comics to get his mind off his brothers. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Roberts brothers went away to fight against hitler.
Featuring weekly comic release discussions, creator amas, a friendly and helpful userbase, and much more. If you havent been keeping up with the batbooks the heres some reading you can do if you like to get some greater context of robin war. I would recommend this book to all the red maple people. A five week robin war crossover between grayson, detective comics, gotham academy, robin. Starting in 1947, the solo adventures of robin were published in the pages of star spangled comics. Top rated lists for robin 100 items my comic book collection 6 items titles that should be added to the new 52. Dc finally gets justice for batmans forgotten robin. Robin war is a dc comics crossover storyline published in december 2015 until january 2016, which spanned from the issues between the robin war, grayson, detective comics volume 2, we are robin and robin son of batman comic series. Robin war comic read robin war comic online in high quality.
Robin war is a comic book crossover storyline published by dc comics. With tim drake missing, the teen titans track him back to gotham city, where the robin war ragesbut professor pyg. Previous versions of the character include, dick grayson and jason todd. So, view our 2,000 comics or other robin war comics. In superhero comics, there are certain character roles a reader would expect. A young member of the we are robin movement sparks a citywide response to teenage vigilantes called the robin laws, which make any visual or verbal identification with the movement illegal.
Tom king is blowing up in the comic book world this year. Robin war tiein written by scott lobdell and will pfeifer. Conceived as a way to attract young readership, robin. The series focused on tim drake, the third character to canonically assume the identity of robin. All of the comics list below are available at your local comic book store or digitally on comixology and dc comics digital comics platform. Drobin tells red robin, red hood and the robins to go home. Robins unite, robins fall by nkay96 on december 2, 2015 leave a comment its been the year of robin, and to round it off we have the big crossover event robin war, uniting all the former and current robins from the different battitles. We are made to believe that reunions are happening, when theyve taken place in other comics. Red robin and red hood ask drobin what he thinks he is doing wearing a court of owl mask.
The event ran from december 2015 to january 2016 in the books robin war, grayson. Son of batman, red hoodarsenal, teen titans, and we are robin. San diego, dc entertainment announced an upcoming event titled robin war, which will cross over between robin, son. Dick grayson, jason todd, tim drake, and damian wayne train the robin movement and lead them on several missions.
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